Combination-cabinet for sewing-machines



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T. KUNDTZ.

COMBINATION CABINET FOB. SEWING MACHINES.

No. 405,568. Patented June 18, 1889.

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ATTORNLYJ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THEODUR KUNDTZ, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

COMBINATION-CABINET FOR SEWING-MACHINES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 405,568, dated June 18, 1889.

Application filed November 5, 1888. Serial No. 290,035. (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, THEODOR KUNDTZ, of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Combination-Cabinets for Sewing-Machines and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to an improved combination-cabinet for sewing-machines adapted to serve as writing-desk and table for general work; and it consists in certain features of construction and in combination of parts hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figures 1 and 2 are front elevations, partly in section, the former showing the writing-desk attachment open and the latter showing the cabinet open for sewing-machine work. Fig. 3 is an elevation in transverse section on line 97 .90, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a front elevation, partly in section, of the cover proper in closed position. Figs. 5, 6, and 7 are enlarged elevations in section, showing different positions of the mechanism for shifting the cover.

My improved device when closed has the general appearance of a cabinet, giving little or no sign of having a sewing-machine inside. The upper section, or what is considered the sewing-machine cover proper, is of the same dimensions in plan as the lower section B. This cover, being flat 011 top, mayin its closed position serve as a table for general use. The cover is divided on a transverse vertical plane into two equal sections or members A A. Each member A is pivoted to levers C, the pivotal studs or pins or operating in short slots 0 of the lever, by means of which members A have a slight movement, when necessary, endwise these levers, for purposes hereinafter mentioned. Levers in turn, are pivoted at b to the lower section B of the cabinet B, the arrangement of parts being such that members A A may abut each other, forming a continuous table, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4; or members A A may be transferred to the ends of section B, with the top of sections A A flush with the top of section B, as shown in Fig. 2. Such shifting backward and forward of sections A A is of course done by hand, levers C meantime serving as guides and partial supports for sections A A, and the latter being preferably kept horizontal during such shifting movement. The head of each lever C is provided with hook 0', these hooks opening upward when sections A are in position shown in Fig. 2, and sections A have attached metal plates a, these plates having holes therein adapted to receive hooks c, by which engagement members A are held in place at the respective ends of section B, the aforesaid end movement of sections A on levers O facilitating the engagement and disengagement of plates at with hooks a. Each member A has a front lid A, hinged thereto, as shown, and these lids when let down serve as a writing-table. (See Fig.

It will be observed that when members A are united, as shown in Figs. 1 and 4, they are much larger than is necessary for covering the sewing-machine head, and any spare space therein may be utilized by placing drawers for writing material, peirracks, and places for ink-bottles, (he. Members A A being, as aforesaid, held horizontal while being shifted, the writing materials are not disturbed, and the contents of the ink-bottle are not spilled during such shifting. drawers B, substantially as heretofore. The recess left for the sewing-machine treadle is closed by a door composed of upper and lower sections D and D, hinged together at d, the upper section being hinged to the casing, as shown in Fig. 2. One of the stiles D of the upper section of the door extends to the bottom of the doorway to give greater stability to the door by placing hinges d farther apart, and as the lower section is hinged to the up per section and its edge adjacent to stile D flush with the adjacent edge of the stile, it follows that the lower section can be folded up against the outer face of the upper sec tion. In opening the door the lower member thereof D, which, as before stated, is simply loosely suspended from the upper section, engages the treadle of the machine, and is thereby tilted forward. (See Fig. 3.) The lower section thereupon is folded up by hand.

Section B has tiers of against the upper section, and in this folded position the so-to-speak double door is turned back against the casing, as shown in Fig. 2, a catch of some kind being provided for holding the door .in such position. Stile D has a rabbeted edge d that, when the door is closed, overlaps the adjacent drawers B and locks the same.

The mechanism for locking the opposite tier of drawers B is as follows: An upright movable jamb E has short tenons E at the ends thereof, that operate in grooves or mortises b of the casing top and bottom, leaving jamb E a slight movement edgewise. J amb E has a rabbeted edge e for overlapping and thereby locking the adjacent drawers B. The engaging beveled edges (1 and e of the door and jamb,when the door is closed, crowd jamb E toward the adjacent drawers and lock the same. When the door is opened, springs e crowd jamb E away from the drawers,

thereby unlocking the latter. The device throughout is of course provided with the necessary locks for securing the parts in their closed position; also, dowel-pins a or other guiding device, may be had for causing the two sections A to meet and remain in line in their closed positions.

It will readily be understood that the front lids A, one or both of them at a time, may be turned down to serve as shelves, while coversections A are in the position shown in Fig. 2, for operating the sewing-machine, and that when such covers are turned down any drawers or recesses of sections A will be accessible.

It willbe observed that in the different transformations aforesaid of the cabinet and its attachments the sewing-machine itself remains intact and undisturbed, no portion thereof being shifted changed, or interfered with in the least.

What I claim is 1. In a cabinet sewing-machine, the combi nation, with a cover divided vertically from front to rear, substantially as indicated, of levers pivoted to each section of the cover and to the body of the cabinet in position to unite the cover-sections on top the machine to form a top-table, said levers being in position to fold the cover-sections against the cabinet in prolongation of the table whereon the machine is operated, substantially as set forth.

2. ,The combination, with the bisected cover, substantially as indicated, of folding front lids for each cover-section, said folding front lids, when lowered, constituting a writingdesk, substantially as set forth.

3. The combination, with bisected cover and abody, of tilting levers loosely connected to said body and cover, each lever being provided at one end with a hook adapted, when its respective section is lowered, to enter a slot in said section and support the same, substantially as set forth.

4. The combination,with abody. and levers pivoted to said body, each lever provided at its pivoted ends with a hook, and at a point near its opposite end with an elongated slot, of a bisected cover, a pin attached to each section of said cover and passing through the slot in its lever, each section of the cover having a slot adapted to receive the hook of its lever when lowered to a position alongside of the body.

5. The combination, with acabinet sewingmachine, of a door for closing the recess wherein the treadle operates, such door being in two sections, the lower section being hinged to the upper section, so as to fold up outside the upper section, the latter being hinged to the cabinet, so as to open inward, substantially as set forth.

6. The combination, with door and adjacent tier of drawers, of intervening sliding jamb, the latter having a member adapted to overlap and look the drawers, engaging beveled edges on the door and jamb for moving the jamb toward the drawers, and springs for moving the j amb away from the drawers with the opening of the door, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I sign this specification, in the presence of two witnesses, this 28th day of June, 1888. v

. THEODOR KUNDTZ.

Witnesses:

CHAs. H. DORER, ALBERT E. LYNCH. 

